My Android Solutions

Smart home (IoT) – the beginnings

January 7, 2018

android, arduino, esp8266, IoT, nodemcu, relay

Intro Since I am a fan of DYI and love gadgets(and IoT), I started to play with a Raspberry Pi and ESP8266 for a while. I had some failing ideas like automating my curtains, after long plans and setup, I…

Kotlin – for, while, if, when

January 5, 2018

Laura Suciu

Kotlin

for, if, in, is, iterations, java, kotlin, loop, replacement if-else if chain, switch, when, while

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Control flow: for, while, if, when This post is for beginners who want to start learning Kotlin language and already know Java. We will show simple examples of for, while, if, when in both languages, in parallel, for an easier understanding.…

Android Show HTML Bulleted List from strings.xml

November 27, 2017

Laura Suciu

Snippets, Solutions

android, bulleted list, strings.xml

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If you search on the internet about how to show a bulleted list from strings.xml using HTML tags, most of the answers will say that you should use a WebView, or to use the bullet symbol directly, or other alternatives.…

Android Activity launchMode

November 15, 2017

Laura Suciu

Articles

android, back button, back stack, launchMode, singleInstance, singleTask, task, taskAffinity

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In Android you can specify activity launchMode. You can do this either from AndroidManifest.xml file, either using intents with flags. Some of the flags produce the same effects like those from AndroidManifest.xml, but there are some flags that can be…

Android Add Game Leaderboard

November 2, 2017

Laura Suciu

Tutorial

android game leaderboards, android how to add leaderboard, game

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In order to display leaderboards from your game you will have to set up your project and to be signed in. Below you will learn how to do this. Project Setup Download the Android samples from https://github.com/playgameservices/android-basic-samples Import BaseGameUtils into your project…

Android ViewPager Tutorial

October 20, 2017

Laura Suciu

Tutorial

android, android viewpager example, android viewpager tutorial, FragmentPagerAdapter, FragmentStatePagerAdapter, pagerAdapter, ViewPager, viewpager example android

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In Android, if you need to swipe from right to left or vice-versa in order to see different data, you can use a ViewPager. In order to use it, you have to implement a PagerAdapter which will generate the pages…

Android ViewPager Cube Animation

October 9, 2017

Laura Suciu

Tutorial

android, animation, cube animation, cube animation on a view pager, view pager, ViewPager

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After trying some libraries in order to make a cube animation for my viewPager, I realized that is pretty easy to do this. Android provides an interface called ViewPager.PageTransformer and you just have to implement its method transformPage(). Below is…

Android – HTML in textView

September 29, 2017

Laura Suciu

Articles, Solutions

bold, font, getText vs getString, html, Html.fromHtml, size, spanned, style, supported tags, TextView, unsupported tags

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Display HTML format First we will present below what are the supported tags for a textView and what are not supported. You can skip this section if you are already familiar with these or you want to jump directly into…

Kotlin – How to pass function as parameter

September 21, 2017

Laura Suciu

Kotlin

::, arguments, functions, how to pass a function as parameter, lambda, parameters, reference function

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Recently, I’ve noticed that there are a few different ways to pass a function as parameter. In this post I will use 2 functions: sum and divide. We have to declare the sum function, in such way that it can…